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genteel room without giving offence to the eye, their appearance
being Somewhat like a cabinet.
Of the Defigns in Plate XLIII.
The drawer in the wafh-hand Hand is lined with lead, into
which the bafon is emptied. The upper part, which contains
the cittern, takes off occasionally. Below the drawer is a cup-
board. Obferve, that in the defign the drawer back is fuppofed
to be behind the bafon; but before the drawer is wholly taken
away, the bafon muff be taken out.
Of the Pot-Cupboard.
These are ufed in genteel bed-rooms, and are.Sometimes
finished in fatin-wood, and in a fiyle a little elevated above their
ufe. The two drawers below the cupboard are real. The par-
titions may be crofs-banded, and a firing round the corners of
the drawer. Thefe feet are turned, but Sometimes they are
made Square. Sometimes there are folding doors to the cup-
board part, and Sometimes a curtain of green filk, fixed on a
brafs wire at top and bottom; but in this defign a tambour door
is ufed, as preferable. The upper cupboard contains Shelves,
and is intended to keep medicines to be taken in the night, or to
hold other little articles which Servants are not permitted to
overlook. r
being Somewhat like a cabinet.
Of the Defigns in Plate XLIII.
The drawer in the wafh-hand Hand is lined with lead, into
which the bafon is emptied. The upper part, which contains
the cittern, takes off occasionally. Below the drawer is a cup-
board. Obferve, that in the defign the drawer back is fuppofed
to be behind the bafon; but before the drawer is wholly taken
away, the bafon muff be taken out.
Of the Pot-Cupboard.
These are ufed in genteel bed-rooms, and are.Sometimes
finished in fatin-wood, and in a fiyle a little elevated above their
ufe. The two drawers below the cupboard are real. The par-
titions may be crofs-banded, and a firing round the corners of
the drawer. Thefe feet are turned, but Sometimes they are
made Square. Sometimes there are folding doors to the cup-
board part, and Sometimes a curtain of green filk, fixed on a
brafs wire at top and bottom; but in this defign a tambour door
is ufed, as preferable. The upper cupboard contains Shelves,
and is intended to keep medicines to be taken in the night, or to
hold other little articles which Servants are not permitted to
overlook. r